This land is your land: why landscapes are the most emotional artworks

Painting a portrait of the past.

Jonathan Jones talks about how a good landscape painting can be so intriguing and emotional. He talks about for him certain landscapes bring back memories or thoughts of his father. You see those little things displayed paintings that can remind you of someone or something. A painting like that can be worth a lot to a person.

Just recently I was visiting a friend and noticed he had hung a new painting on the wall leading down the hallway.  I stopped and looked at it and asked him where the painting was from (it was a woody area with a small cabin) and he said he had no idea however it reminded him of where he and his dad use to go hunting together.  So that painting had great value to my friend.

If you would like to read Mr. Jones’s entire post on “why landscapes are the most emotional artworks” then please visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/jan/03/landscapes-artworks-frederic-church